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Tomb Robberies at the End of the New Kingdom - The Gurob Burnt Groups Reinterpreted (Hardcover)
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Tomb Robberies at the End of the New Kingdom - The Gurob Burnt Groups Reinterpreted (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Egyptian Archaeology
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At the end of the 19th century W.M.F. Petrie excavated a series of
assemblages at the New Kingdom Fayum site of Gurob. These deposits,
known in the Egyptological literature as 'Burnt Groups', were
composed by several and varied materials (mainly Egyptian and
imported pottery, faience, stone and wood vessels, jewellery), all
deliberately burnt and buried in the harem palace area of the
settlement. Since their discovery these deposits have been
considered peculiar and unparalleled. Many scholars were challenged
by them and different theories were formulated to explain these
enigmatic 'Burnt Groups'. The materials excavated from these
assemblages are now curated at several Museum collections across
England: Ashmolean Museum, British Museum, Manchester Museum, and
Petrie Museum. For the first time since their discovery, this book
presents these materials all together. Gasperini has studied and
visually analysed all the items. This research sheds new light on
the chronology of deposition of these assemblages, additionally a
new interpretation of their nature, primary deposition, and
function is presented in the conclusive chapter. The current study
also gives new information on the abandonment of the Gurob
settlement and adds new social perspective on a crucial phase of
the ancient Egyptian history: the transition between the late New
Kingdom and the early Third Intermediate Period. Beside the
traditional archaeological sources, literary evidence ('The Great
Tomb Robberies Papyri') is taken into account to formulate a new
theory on the deposition of these assemblages.
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